Nazi flight memoir was fiction, author confesses

 "De Wael's story is not the first fabricated account of surviving the Holocaust. In 1994, Binjamin Wilkomirski published Fragments, recounting his experiences as a four-year-old in a Nazi concentration camp in occupied Poland. He was later revealed to have spent the war in Switzerland.

Similarly, Bernard Brougham - under the name Holstein - also claimed to be a survivor, and went so far as to brand himself with a bogus tattoo to authenticate his 2004 book Stolen Soul."

Nazi flight memoir was fiction, author confesses

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/03/news.film

http://web.archive.org/web/20210903132642/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/03/news.film

Author of fake Holocaust memoir ordered to return $22.5m to publisher

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/author-fake-holocaust-memoir-to-return-22m

http://web.archive.org/web/20220103215810/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/author-fake-holocaust-memoir-to-return-22m

Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, written by Herman Rosenblat, was a fictitious Holocaust memoir purporting to tell the true story of the author's reunion with, and marriage to, a girl who had passed him food through the barbed-wire fence when he was imprisoned at the Schlieben subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II. The book was scheduled for publication by Berkley Books in February 2009, but its publication was canceled on December 27, 2008, when it was discovered that the book's central events were untrue.

http://web.archive.org/web/20201109003050/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_at_the_Fence

maps of Schlieben indicate that neither prisoners nor civilians could have approached the perimeter fence because one could only obtain access immediately next to the SS barracks.[3] Waltzer also determined that Rosenblat's wife, as well as her family, were hidden as Christians at a farm near Breslau, 210 miles away from Schlieben.

http://web.archive.org/web/20201109003050/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_at_the_Fence

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_at_the_Fence

Herman A. Rosenblat (c. 1929 – February 5, 2015) was a Polish-born American author, known for writing a fictitious Holocaust memoir titled Angel at the Fence

http://web.archive.org/web/20201109041418/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Rosenblat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Rosenblat

Jewish professor Deborah Lipstadt had already denounced the story in her personal blog in December 2007.

http://web.archive.org/web/20201109041418/https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Rosenblat

There is a Holocaust story making the rounds on the Internet which is clearly not true. 

http://web.archive.org/web/20201029015433mp_/https://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2007/12/apples-over-fence-holocaust-story-that.html

Let me focus only on the most fundamental one: Buchenwald had no gas chambers. In May 1945 no one was still being gassed.

http://web.archive.org/web/20201029015433mp_/https://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2007/12/apples-over-fence-holocaust-story-that.html

https://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2007/12/apples-over-fence-holocaust-story-that.html

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Apples over the Fence: A Holocaust story that beggars the imagination